Paint-package.



J. W. HASBURG.

PAINT PACKAGE.

APPLIOATION FILED APR. 12, 1912.

1,049,71 1. Patented Jan. 7, 1913. 1

. mkamm JOHN W. HASBURG, OF CHIOAGO, ILLI1\TOI S.

PAINT-PACKAGE.

Specification bf Letters Patent;

Patented J an. 7, 1913.

Application filed April 12, 1912. Serial No. 690,372.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN WV, IIASBURG, a citizen of the United States,residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, haveinvented certain new anduseful Improvements in Paint-Packages, of whichthe following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in paint packages, and has especialreference to packages designed to contain gold paint for ceramicdecoration. acter is of a mastic nature and-in its preparation for useit isusually deposited upon a glass palette and inelosed by asubstantially transparent cover, such as a sheet of celluloid, or thelike, overlying the palette and then substantially hermetically sealedin the package to exclude dust and other objectionablc matter. The.paint deposit is invariably of a dark brown or chocolate color, as itappears to the purchaser, but when applied and after the article towhich the paint has been so applied has been burned or tired, it changescolor materially, having the metallic color and appearance of gold, suchas, known in the art as Roman; green; white; and ruby gold, or green;red; brown; ray and verdigris bronze.

The only means that the purchaser has heretofore had for determining theresultant color or character of gold resulting from the use of a depositin a given package is the statement of the manufacturer upon thepackage. To contemplative purchasers, unfamiliar with the various colorsand characteristics of the product of several manufac-, turers, the merestatement of color is not always satisfactory. I therefore find that anocular demonstration of these features of the product, accompanying thepackage, affords a ready means for determining the results that may beexpected fromthe use of the paint after it has been applied to anarticle, for decorative purposes and said article has been put throughthe usual process of firing. With these objects in view I provide asurface, in connection with the usual brown deposit of paint, which hasbeen previously prepared to simulate the color of the product in itsfinished state.

Paint of this char-- In the drawing; Figure 1 is a. cross sect-ion of atypical gold paint package as it appears in a box for shipment. Fig. 2is a plan view 5 is the usual glass palette with the brown colored goldpaint deposit 6 near its middle zone, inclosed by a substantiallytransparent celluloid cover 7, that is preferably sealed to the palette,as at 8, in any desirable man nor, to render the package substantiallyair and dust tight. This constitutes the usual package, as heretoforeprepared for the market. For shipment it may be placed in a box. 5)having a suitable lid or closure 10.

My invention consists in preparing a surface, associated with. thepackage, which has previously been prepared to simulate the color of thepaint, as it will appear after application to and firing of the articleto which it has been applied.

In the specific embodiment illustrated, 11 is a sheet of paper havingits uppermost'surface prepared, by suitable means, to simulate t-hecolorand appearance of the accompanying paint after application to, andcompletion of, ceramic articles to which it may be applied. The papermay be pasted to the back of the glass palette 5, or to the bottom ofthe containing box 9, or the respective surfaces of the palette, or thebox may be directly treated to produce the desired effect. It ispreferable to presentsuch prepared surface so that it may become visi-.ble from the front or through the openingin the containing box 9, sothat it may be 1nspeeted through the substantially transparent paletteand cover and without remov ng the package from the box, but myinvention is not limited to such an arrangement and in this respect itis susceptible to a number of variations and modifications.

Having described my invention, what I claim is:

A ceramic gold paint package, comprising, a receptacle having bottommember, and a substantially transparent top member hermetically sealedthereto, a transparent palette, a deposit of ceramic gold paint smallerthan the palette, carried by the top surface l within the receptacle andthereby protected of the palette, and an imitative surface prei againstexterior influences. 10

pared to simulate that changed appearance In testimony whereof Ihereunto set my which the gold paint will assume after bakhand 1n thepresence of two Witnesses.

, ing, said surface underlying the palette and JOHN W. HASBURG.

visible through the palette and cover, as a In the presence ofborderaround the gold deposit, and the "W. LINN ALLEN, palette, paint andsurface being contained lvIARY F. ALLEN.

